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• Indian police recover explosives from plane

  Police in India's southern tourist resort state of Kerala said yesterday they had recovered explosives from an airliner.

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• Teesta sees no major progress

  The India-Bangladesh Joint Rivers Commission (JRC) yesterday asked water resources secretaries of the two countries to analyse Dhaka's draft on expeditious conclusion of an interim agreement on sharing the Teesta waters.

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• India mulls 'no-firing' for a year

  India yesterday said it might declare a unilateral "no-firing" along its border with Bangladesh for a year to avoid civilian deaths in crossfire.

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• Last-minute parleys to narrow gaps

  India and Bangladesh were making a last-ditch effort last night to narrow down differences on the contentious issue of water sharing of Teesta river at the ministerial level Joint River Commission meeting.

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• Talks 'positive'

  Bangladesh and India began their ministerial-level Joint River Commission talks here yesterday on sharing of waters of the Teesta and other common rivers with Bangladesh Water Resources Minister Ramesh Chandra Sen terming the discussions "positive".

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Latest News From Around The World

• Business Week

  Subbarao Begins India Battle to Contain Inflation (Update1)

  India central bank Governor Duvvuri Subbarao may add to his first interest rate increase since the end of the global recession after falling in danger of being judged too slow to contain accelerating consumer prices.

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• BBC

  India plane cracker probe begins

  Indian police launch a probe into the recovery of a firecracker in the cargo hold of a commercial airplane.

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• The Financial Times

  India wins solar power funding

  The International Finance Corporation is investing in India's first commercially viable solar power project, giving a vote of confidence to ambitions to develop the...

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• Business Week

  India Rate Rise to Hurt Priciest BRIC Stocks, Boost Rupee

  Indian stocks, the most expensive in the largest emerging markets, may fall as a surprise interest rate increase hurts financial and consumer shares, while the rupee is poised to extend gains, EM Capital Management LLC and Prudential Financial Inc. s

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• San Francisco Chronicle

  Asia stocks drop as Greek crisis, India hike weigh

  Asian stock markets fell Monday as worries about Greece's debt crisis and India's sudden interest rate hike rattled investors. Major indexes were down as much as 2 percent after selling hit U.S. and European markets on Friday. Oil prices fell toward

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